Tag: Minnesota Fringe

A collage of Minnesota Fringe Festival images.
The Minnesota Fringe announced its inaugural Golden Lanyard Awards this evening. The awards for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival were free-flowing, to say the least, with some 26 given out in sometimes confusingly labeled categories:
Spirit of the Fringe Award: Hamlet, but Hamlet's a Chicken

A photo collage of the recipients of the Arts Reader's awards for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival.
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On Sunday night, the Minnesota Fringe will announce its official awards for its 2018 festivals at its closing-night party at

In no particular order, here are some of our wish list items for next year's installments of the Minnesota Fringe Festival and Family Fringe:
General
A return of the Family Fringe.
Returning to a child-friendly venue like the Celtic Arts Junction for the Family Fringe.
A Fringe Central with contracted arrangements for

Audience members at Steppingstone's EGG is..., part of the Family Fringe. Photo by Dan Norman.
One of the new additions to this year's Minnesota Fringe lineup is the Family Fringe at Celtic Arts Junction in St. Paul. Unlike the main festival's lottery, applications for the Family Fringe are reviewed by a

A promotional photo for Have You Seen This Girl? by Mermaid Productions.
If you subscribe to the Minnesota Fringe Festival email newsletter, you may have noticed that there are some recurring names on the sell-out warning and sold-out performance lists. One of these is Mermaid Productions' Have You Seen This Girl?
The title

A scene in Gunplay! by Tom Reed at the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Photo by Debbie Tallen.
Wouldn't you say that your show list's complete?
Wouldn't you think it's a Fringe
That has everything?
Look at this schedule:
So many great shows!
But how many guests can Red Stag's bar hold?
Lookin' around here you'd think
(Sure) Dawn's

A collage of Fringe show images.
Commercial success isn't everything, but it's certainly nice to have. These are the shows that have sold out so far at the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival, as of Sunday, 8/12/2018:
Five Performances
Have You Seen This Girl? by Mermaid Productions
Saturday, 8/4; Sunday, 8/5; Wednesday, 8/8;

A photo from last year's Fringe production of MEDUSA by Vox Medusa and Infiammati FireCircus. Photo by Max Haynes.
If in doubt, set it on fire. That's my mantra for this year's Fringe festival: if you're not at all sure where to start, hit up Vox Medusa with Infiammati FireCircus's MEDUSA. This

An example of River Bottom Productions' industrial work.
Joshua Barnd is the owner and operator of River Bottom Productions, a Jordan, MN-based production company that has provided multifaceted production services to the greater Twin Cities area since 2008. On any given day, Joshua might be working on scenic design, lighting, sound,

A collage of promotional images for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe Festival.
The musicals were out in force at last night's preview event for the 2018 Minnesota Fringe. The event – the second of three showcases – featured snippets of everything from short plays and couple tiffs to short plays and goofing